Ireland (6) 21 / Springboks (13) 23 (Final Score)
Ireland hosted the Springboks at Aviva Stadium, Landsdowne Road, Dublin at 19:30 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 and M-Net on TV in SA.
The Springboks forwards were monsterous and they dominated the first half and most of the set pieces.
The Irish came back strongly in the last 20 minutes and a comedy off errors by Sppringbok players nearly made the Irish comeback complete.
Well done to the Springboks though, a win I did not foresee!
3 / 0 for the Southern Hemisphere on the day.
Scores:
Ireland: 3 Penalties Jonathan Sexton, 1 Conversion Ronan O’Gara, 1 Try Tommy Bowe, 1 Try Rob Kearney
Springboks: 3 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morné Steyn, 1 Conversion Patrick Lambie, 1 Try Juan Smith, 1 Try Gio Aplon
Teams:
Ireland: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Brian O’Driscoll (captain), 12 Gordon D’Arcy, 11 Luke Fitzgerald, 10 Jonathan Sexton, 9 Eoin Reddan, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 David Wallace, 6 Stephen Ferris, 5 Mick O’Driscoll, 4 Donncha O’Callaghan, 3 Tony Buckley, 2 Rory Best, 1 Cian Healy.
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Tom Court, 18 Donncha Ryan, 19 Denis Leamy, 20 Peter Stringer, 21 Ronan O’Gara, 22 Keith Earls.
South Africa: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Bjorn Basson, 13 Zane Kirchner, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Keegan Daniel, 20 François Hougaard, 21 Adi Jacobs, 22 Patrick Lambie.
Date: Saturday, 6 November 2010
Kick-off: 19.30 SA Time (GMT 17.30)
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Expected weather: Scattered clouds with a 20 percent chance of rain, a high of 9°C and a northwester of 28 km/h. The temperature is set to drop to 2°C, -2°C with windchill.
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant referees: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand), Keith Brown (New Zealand)
TMO: Hugh Watkins (Wales)
No spies
No boys run , PS that was not really clever
Our 1st 2 scrums went well…
Can see Morne kicking all possession away.
Penalty Bokke…. we are lucky… Aplon held on….
Bok’s do look strange playing in white…..
Are we all sitting comfortably?
Great tackle by Ruan
Now I start my Percy Montgomery spotting…..
find your jumpers
Ahhhh, in your face defence by the Bokke… Ireland knock… our scrum
Handling not up to the Aussie games standard, is the ball wet ?
@ grootblousmile:
Want some good news?
The site is quicker today……see I don’t moan all the time!! 😉
Ireland is way to nervous. Boks should turn advantage into points.
@35 – Odriscoll het nie daylight gegee nie.
Bokke lyk goed, hoop dit bly so.
44@ Timothy Bornman:
Hello Rondeman!
scrums lyk ok.
What a muddle….
hoekom is Ieralnd so nervous
I can see this ref is going to kill us at the scrums
Penalty Ireland, Bokke off their feet
45@ grootblousmile
Yes ja
@ superBul:
It was pouring during the anthems…
Ireland is big on rain!
GBS so by the way this happened earlier
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Juan intercepttttttt, tryyyyyyyyyyy
BRILIANT BRILIANT BRILIANT
Run forrest run….. mooi
Juan Smith looked like he was running through custard!!
Sort of slow-mo…well done Juan
53@ superBul:
Ja but only since 31 October 2009…. we’ve had plenty more than that!
Lekker morne’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JUAN 😀
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